Offering Document
The document prepared by, or for, the Issuer and distributed to investors to provide disclosure with respect to one or more issues of bonds.
bond-basics
Official Statement (“OS”)
The Offering Document used by an Underwriter in a Public Offering.
Get it in Writing
Learn more about the various documents involved in a municipal securities transaction.
See Also
Preliminary Official Statement (“POS”)
The type of offering document circulated prior to the determination of the interest rates and certain other terms of the bonds when it is anticipated or known the bonds will be purchased by an underwriter and resold to the public.
Start with the Bond Basics
Hundreds of Terms and Concepts
Agreement Among Underwriters
Agreement used in the purchase of a bond issue by a syndicate to set out the rights, obligations and purchase commitments of each underwriter; to authorize one or more underwriters to act as manager(s); and to give the manager(s) authority to act on behalf of the others in connection with the bond issue.